BIO: W. T. ZIEGLER, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 _______________________________________________ Part III, History of Adams County, Page 378 W. T. ZIEGLER, liveryman, Gettysburg, was born in that place, October 3, 1840, a son of Samuel and Sarah (Radford) Ziegler, the former a native of Gettysburg and the latter of Maryland. Samuel Ziegler was a hatter by trade and carried on the business in Gettysburg. His death occurred in 1853, in the city of Philadelphia, where he had resided nine years. Emanuel Ziegler, the grandfather of W. T., was a soldier in the Revolution, enlisting in Adams County. W. T. is the fifth child of eight sons and daughters, and received his schooling in Philadelphia night-schools. He began learning the hatter’s trade at the early age of ten years, and worked at the same for five years and a half. He then took up coach painting in Gettysburg, and worked at that occupation until the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861, when he enlisted in Company F, Eighty- seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry. Mr. Ziegler was in the following battles during the late Rebellion with the Third and Sixty Army Corps: Newton, Va., Winchester, Va., Stevens’ Station, Va., Locust grove, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Ann, Cold Harbor and Welden Railroad, near Petersburg, Va. In 1864 he was taken prisoner at the battle of Weldon Railroad, and confined in Andersonville prison, and from which “pen” he was released with the Union soldiers. On returning to Gettysburg after the war he followed coach painting for two years; then engaged in the manufacturing of coaches and carriages, carrying on the business for two years. In 1870 he embarked with the well-known battlefield guide, W. D. Holtzworth, in the livery business, which is his present occupation, and in which he has met with success. He is a member of Post No. 9, G. A. R., of which he has been post-commander. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. In politics he is a Democrat. He is at this time president of the school board. In 1867 Mr. Ziegler was married to Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Harmon, of Straban Township, and to them were born seven children: Samuel H., William E., Mary A., Sarah L., Charles T., John S. and Frederick. The family is identified with the Reformed Church.